September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...much smaller magnitude). Debris removal using space-based lasers benefits from not requiring extra propellant for trajectory alterations...process. However, one stringent requirement is that the laser must produce high power, which in turn requires ...
07 August 2019
Successful launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite
...programme’s four Sentinel observation satellites. Since it entered service in late 2016, it has achieved more than 20,000 laser connections. The reliability rate has reached 99.5%, and these successful connections have downloaded more than 1 petabyte...
June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
...speed, it was too great for him to measure. The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (LLRE) left on the Moon by the Apollo ...experiments that disagree with the information collated by the laser experiment. One dataset uses tidal rhythmites, fossils left...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
...first orbital data for space debris obtained from laser tracking. Since then novel optical tracking technologies ... orbits, or even to de-orbit, using high powered lasers. The participants have already individually achieved key milestones towards this...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...and commercial support of space habitats. Fig 1: Top: Laser-melting of one interlocking geometry for the PAVER project using...how pavement elements, fabricated from lunar regolith can be laser sintered into infrastructure such as roads and launch pads....
03 August 2016
Aladin gets ready for Aeolus
...Space in France, along with its two powerful lasers, Aladin incorporates a large telescope and very sensitive ...molecules and aerosols. By comparing these frequencies with the original laser, the winds below the satellite can be determined. Aladin will...
